What’s new

Here you can find the latest news and information about the U.S. Web Design Standards. Read our latest release notes, learn about the Standards’ impact in the government, and learn how we conduct user research to continuously improve our product and process.

Latest blog posts

You can read more about the Standards on the 18F blog, where we cover the
latest development releases as well as interviews with the teams from across
government who have successfully implemented the Standards at their agencies.

Standards in the wild

Interested in seeing who else is using the U.S. Web Design Standards? We
maintain a list of sites in our GitHub repo. Feel free to
open an issue
or email us if you’d like to add your
project to our list.

Web analytics for sites that use the Standards

By accessing the Google Analytics data gathered for analytics.usa.gov,
we have aggregated a few data points to approximate how many users of federal
websites have “experienced” the U.S. Web Design Standards. We will update these
numbers quarterly.

Quarter

New users

Total users

Page views

2017 Q1

68,868,781

59,951,812

424,001,431

2016 Q4

54,646,374

62,220,498

478,526,298

2016 Q3

52,870,578

59,841,967

487,462,513

2016 Q2

53,006,353

60,214,372

391,914,815

Become part of the community

The U.S. Web Design Standards has grown into a blossoming, open source community of government engineers, content specialists, and designers. We currently support dozens of agencies and more than 100 sites, which is fueled through an active community of contributors both in and out of government.